So, I don't want this to sound like ass-kissery, but I feel I have really learned a lot about writing from reading the site, and from attempting to participate. Even if I never get a successful SCP off the ground, I'm glad I learned SOMETHING from trying.

This site is great because each article has something to tell us about how to write and how to engage an audience. Even the bad ones, the ones we downvote to oblivion, teach us how poorly one can convey ideas that were once thought to be incredible but were actually just kinda meh.

The greatest beauty of the SCP series, in my opinion, is the fact that each article has a story behind it, even if it's not explicitly written. Each of these objects have unique stories all their own, and they allow the audience to participate in the creation of their backstory, even if it becomes something as simple as "SCP-XXX did absolutely fucking nothing until this one day when it turned blue and then the Foundation got hold of it and now it continues to do absolutely fucking nothing".

Even though I haven't written anything in a long time, just being around so many "micro-stories" lets me truly flex my amateur literary criticism skills and helps me learn new things about the written word each day.